University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s 15th annual best management practices workshops for contractors and landscape designers are April 17 and 18 at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village.

The half-day refresher course is 8am-noon on April 17, and the full-day basic workshop is 8am-4:50pm on April 18.

Best management practices are land-management and landscaping practices that control erosion and encourage runoff from rooftops and pavement to infiltrate into the ground

This year’s workshops will include presentations on two new BMP site design options developed by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. These options will provide alternative ways to evaluate a property and create a site design, as the planning agency and the conservation districts may not be able to provide as many free BMP site evaluations in the future as they have in the past.

Businesses that install BMPs are listed on an installation service providers list as long as at least one employee attends and passes the course every two years. The list is online.

To register, go online. For more information, call 775.784.4848.